Netflix’s official YouTube Channel and Twitter account began streaming a Japanese and English teaser trailer for the television anime adaptation of Hashimoto Chicken’s The Mushikago no Cagaster (Cagaster of an Insect Cage) manga. The series will exclusively be distributed via the streaming service worldwide on February 6th. Additionally, the main cast of the series was also unveiled.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsWhen a mutagenic plague that nearly wiped out humanity returns, two survivors will have to find a way forward. Cagaster of an Insect Cage premieres worldwide on February 6th. #Cagaster pic.twitter.com/PLTTfFQd5v
— NX (@NXOnNetflix) January 16, 2020
GONZO is producing the anime and Koichi Chigira (Tokyo Babylon, Full Metal Panic!, Last Exile) is directing.
Main Cast:
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kidō
- Kana Hanazawa as Iri
- Natsuki Hanae as Ahato
- Takahiro Sakurai as Franz
- Daisuke Namikawa as Griffith
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Mario
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Jin
- Junichi Suwabe as Kashim
- Tomohiro Shiozaki as Hadi
- Ai Kayano as Aisha
- Tetsu Shiratori as Mercantile District Head
- Yasuhiro Mamiya as Adham
- Daiki Yamashita as Naji
- Akari Kitō as Lydi
- Tomokazu Sugita as Lazaro
- Aoi Yūki as Carla
- Kousuke Toriumi as Petrov
Hashimoto Chicken published Mushikago no Kagaster web manga series on his official site “Chicken no Tamashii” in 2010. Tokuma Shoten officially published the series on January 12, 2016.
In a near future, an illness called “Cagaster” made its appearance. It turns humans into insects. The story begins 30 years after the onset of the illness, in 2125. It follows the adventures of Kidou, a boy who fights insects.
